The day the First World War broke out Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 WELLCOME BOOK PRIZENEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017 Yejide is hoping for a miracle for a child It is all her husband wants all her mother-in-law wants & she has tried everything
- arduous pilgrimages medical consultations appeals to God But when her relatives insist upon a new wife it is too much for Yejide to bear It will lead to jealousy betrayal & despair Unravelling against the social & political turbulence of 1980s Nigeria Stay With Me sings with the voices colours joys & fears of its surroundings Ayobami Adebayo weaves a devastating story of the fragility of married love the undoing of family the wretchedness of grief & the all-consuming bonds of motherhood It is a tale about our desperate attempts to save ourselves & those we love from heartbreak
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Shortlisted for the 2017 Baileys Prize this Nigerian debut is the heartbreaking tale of what wanting a child can do to a person a marriage & a family 304 pages Adebayo Ayobami ...

Looking to put a spring in your step without overhauling your life? Discover 1001 ideas for keeping your body & mind youthful With timeless anti-ageing tips including healthy foods exercises & brain training you can maintain your zest for all areas of life with simple daily changes Try classic rejuvenating recipes & morning meditation as well as surprising tips such as volunteering crafts & even erotic poetry! Packed with hundreds of bite-sized self-help remedies & and key complementary therapies Try It! Stay Young Naturally will keep you feeling fantastically youthful both inside & out ...

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Tusker & Lily Smalley stayed on in India Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker once a Colonel in the British Army retired they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot with its eccentric inhabitants & archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire Only the tyranny of their landlady the imposing Mrs Bhoolabhoy threatens to upset the quiet rhythm of their days Both funny & deeply moving Staying On is a unique engrossing portrait of the end of an empire & of a forty-year love affair ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The sequel to Jewel in the Crown Paul Scott&s Booker prize winning novel about a British colonel & his wife who decide to remain in India after the departure of the British is dramatized as an award-wining television series Actors Trevor Howard Celia Johnson Saeed Jaffrey Pearl Padamsee & Fida Bai Director Silvio Narizzano Certificate PG Year 1979 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages English Duration 1 hour 26 minutes (approx) ...

Phil ' The Power' Taylor is the uncontested king of darts his sixteen world championship titles between 1990 & 2013 far outclassing anything else the game has seen He started out as a protege of Eric Bristow the Crafty Cockney having wandered into his Burslem pub with a set of darts his wife had given him for his birthday At that time Taylor was earning GBP52 a week working in a ceramics factory & hardly played But jaws dropped & pint mugs tipped over as this newcomer suddenly unleashed a gift for flight that had soon eclipsed even the Crafty Cockney himself & amassed Phil a haul of over 200 professional tournament victories Staying Power is a year in the life of a legend twice nominated for BBC Sports Personality of the Year a man who made darts look a doddle to British pub-goers everywhere & set his seal on the game as the bloke to beat A year of triumph & disaster in which Taylor crashed out of the world championship in the second round to young outsider Michael Smith & fell asleep at home on Christmas day exhausted from the strain of constant winning A year when he played arguably the greatest ever game of darts in the Grand Slam semi-final against recent world champion Adrian Lewis the two slugging it out to the wire A year in which Taylor rocked Australia feted like royalty A year of spats & hecklers clashes on stage & off of head-to-heads with the Dutch superstar Michael van Gerwen But most of all this is a year in which Phil Taylor one of sport's greatest champions has looked hard at his life in his determination to stay in power ...

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In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation multispecies feminist theorist Donna J Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth & all its inhabitants She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene as it more aptly & fully describes our epoch as one in which the human & nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices The Chthulucene Haraway explains requires sym-poiesis or making-with rather than auto-poiesis or self-making Learning to stay with the trouble of living & dying together on a damaged earth will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that would provide the means to building more livable futures Theoretically & methodologically driven by the signifier SF-string figures science fact science fiction speculative feminism speculative fabulation so far-Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring & original thinkers of our time ...